METHODOLOGY: Forty-nine children with CLP (age range 7-11 years) completed an online or in-person speech assessment and filled in the CLEFT-Q (Malay Version) questionnaire, which assessed QoL. An experienced SLP rated the nasality and speech intelligibility of the patients' speech samples.
RESULTS: Based on the auditory-perceptual ratings, 63.3 % of the children had normal resonance, and 71.5 % had normal or near-normal speech intelligibility. The appearance of "teeth'' was rated as the poorest feature by all participants (52.71), while "psychological function" was rated as the best outcome (83.49). Weak correlations were found between speech intelligibility and speech distress (r = -0.450, p